Kalachakra Tantric Initiation

In 1985 along with my children and wife, I received the Kalachakra Tantric Initiation in Bodhgaya, India along with 500,000 others from Tibet, Bhutan, Nepal, India, Japan, China and the rest of the world.

Kala means Time and Chakra means cycles or wheel. So, to say Kalachakra literally means either "Time Wheel" or "Time Cycles" and is considered the single most powerful initiation given, by many advanced Tibetan Lamas and monks.

quote from Wikipedia under the heading "Kalachakra"

"---The Kalachakra tradition revolves around the concept of time(kala) and cycles(chakra): from the cycles of the planets, to the cycles of human breathing, it teaches the practice of working with the most subtle energies within one's body on the path to enlightenment"


I felt my life greatly change just before, during and after receiving this initiation. At that time we only thought we were trying to meet a good friend, Geshe Lobsang Gyatso but when we arrived since there were at least 10,000 monks and Lamas present for the Kalachakra Initiation we found that there were many many Geshe Lobsang Gyatso's also present. So, on a loud speaker it was asked that the Geshe Lobsang Gyatso that had recently returned from Santa Cruz and helping Lama Yeshe pass over please come to the podium. Soon our Geshe Lobsang Gyatso arrived and spoke with us.

We had no idea at the time what the Kalachakra Initiation was but we agreed with Geshela that we would all receive the Kalachakra Initiation as we felt God had put us there to meet with him and to receive this initiation at that point. Several days later we had received the initiation along with 500,000 others directly from the Dalai Lama.

It was very powerful and I have been very different since then. One of the changes was that I started to write about a being that I call "His Oneness" that was within the Arcane or "Memories" Cosmology. I believe at this point that His Oneness is the "King of Shambala mentioned in the Kalachakra Tantra and that he lives on in a kind of non-aging dimension connected to earth somehow since Lemuria.

I experienced how much my enlightenment was fostered by this initiation and have never forgotten the devotion and sincerity of the people I met and saw there. It was a completely amazing and unforgettable experience in every way. The fact that about 400,000 of the people there were in traditional native dress made the experience even more amazing on multiple levels as well. There was simply nothing of ordinary western world reality present at that time for me. So it was sort of like being on another planet being around Tibetan monks and Lamas during the 2 months we traveled with Geshela, Lobsang from Darjeeling, Vince from Alaska and my three children and wife across India through Benares (Varanasi), Taj Mahal(Agra), New Delhi, and finally to Dharmsala in Himchal Pradesh state, India.

Then we eventually went back to Katmandu for 2 more months and to Chitwan National Park to see up close White Rhinos(very fast and dangerous up close), Tigers and various snakes and monkeys(monkeys like soda pop) because they would steal ours if we weren't looking for a moment.

We eventually met my friend Anton from Mt. Shasta, California before we went to Chitwan so he went there with us and rode elephants while watching rhinos and road jeep like vehicles while hoping rhinos wouldn't gore us or the jeeps and while on foot and ran up trees to avoid being split up the middle by attacking white rhinos and hoped the tree wouldn't be knocked to the ground by the rhino trying to kill us. But eventually the mating rhinos left us in peace so we could safely retreat and live to tell family and friends about it all.

Outside of a few near death experiences for each of us including Ghiarddhea (protozoa in the intestines) which made 4 out of 5 of us extremely skinny for about 6 months, we all survived the totally amazing experience of India, Nepal and Dharmsala and the Kalachakra Initiation. Rewalsar, India was pretty amazing as well. It is a Padmasambhava(Dorje Drollo) holy place. Since I had received this initiation from a Nyingma Lama in UC Berkeley along with several hundred others, two lamas and a monk in Dharmsala told me it was important that I go to Rewalsar(Tsopema in Tibetan). It is located near Mendi, India in Himchal Pradesh state.